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- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- GAY INS
- THE 12 GREATT FEMALE GAY INS OF ALL TIME
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
It won the 2019 Digal Publishg Award for bt digal lumn that this is the 100th edn of this lumn and that we're nearg the fal days of my first full wrg about all thgs gay on the regular, I figured why not go all out and unt down the queer pop culture moments that fed an absolutely extraordary for LGBTQ excellence?
NFL COACH COM OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Or books like Roxane Gay's Hunger, Hasan Namir's God Pk, Hilton Als's Whe Girls, Vivek Shraya's even this page is whe, Casey Plett's Ltle Fish or Joshua Whehead's Jonny Appleed.
Andrew Stt on FleabagBeyond beg more or ls the greatt achievement serial storytellg 2010s, the send season of Fleabag also let gay actor Andrew Stt bee the most lted after man the world for a hot mute thanks to his perfectly sexy (and jt perfect general) portrayal of "Hot Prit. Scht's CreekArguably the most popular Canadian televisn export sce The Kids and the Hall (if not ever), CBC's very own Scht's Creek gave both everyone's favoure pansexual sweater enthiast David Rose (seri -creator Dan Levy) and the fictnal utopia we all serve: a world where homophobia don't seem to exist and David's sexualy is simply accepted by all the show's characters whout qutn. Followg an agg novelist as he travels the world on a lerary tour (though really he's avoidg the weddg of an ex-boyiend), Ls is very much about what means to get old as a gay 's also hilar and romantic, landg wh a perfect endg that still mak me tear up when I thk about .
Pedro Almodóvar's Pa and GloryAnother masterfully realized reflectn on gay agg is currently still cemas: Pedro Almodóvar's Pa and Glory, a semi-tobgraphil look at a filmmaker whose hope and health is fadg, portrayed by longtime Almodóvar me Anton Banras sentially playg Almodóvar a reer-bt performance (give him an Osr nomatn, please). And while pretty much everythg he did sce qualifi as queer excellence, peak Perfume was probably the gleamg, epic 2014 sgle "Queen, " which he has scribed as a song spired by "gay panic" and " the power one n rive om knowg their mere beg is makg everyone around them extremely unfortable. Please Like Me Inially — and rctively — pegged as "an Atralian Girls if Hannah were a gay du, " Please Like Me centred on 20-somethg Josh (played by and suggtively based on creator Josh Thomas) as he navigated his relatnships wh his lovers, fay and iends (cludg Hannah Gadsby).
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Sam Smh's "Stay Wh Me"While, ntrary to their own Osr speech, Sam Smh may not have been the first gay to w an Osr, they did give a lot to appreciate the 2010s, cludg their unniably harrowg signature sgle "Stay Wh Me. Billy Porter's red rpet fashnNo one refed what celebry male fashn uld look like this more than actor Billy Porter, whose tuxedo gown was lerally the bt thg about this year's Osrs and who wore this while beg the first openly gay Black man to w an Emmy for bt drama actor. Kate McKnon and Bowen Yang on Saturday Night LiveTwo of the few unniably great thgs about a very uneven for Lorne Michaels's 45-season-and-untg Saturday Night Live were the addns of two tremendoly talented gay edians: Kate McKnon (who joed 2012 and has been the bt thg about SNL ever sce) and Bowen Yang (who me on as a wrer 2018 and st member 2019).
Anchored by a stunng, who-knew-he-had-that--him performance by Darren Criss as Cunanan, The Assassatn of Gianni Versace ultimately me together as a btal and brilliant dissectn of homophobia — both ternal and stutnal — unlike anythg televisn's ever seen.
Sentially ma Timothée Chalamet's El and Armie Hammer's Oliver stant ins of queer cema — and fally got gay cematic legend Jam Ivory an Osr wner (makg him, at 89, the olst Osr wner ever). LookgI'm aware not everyone agre, but I thought Andrew Haigh and Michael Lannan's short-lived HBO seri Lookg was a legimately revolutnary exploratn of what means to be gay. Lady Gaga took a song wh lyrics like "Don't be a drag, jt be a queen" and "No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lbian, transgenr life / I'm on the right track, baby / I was born to survive" and phed as far to the mastream as possible, sellg over 8 ln pi worldwi of the track alone and performg at the 2017 Super Bowl halftime show for 117.
THE 12 GREATT FEMALE GAY INS OF ALL TIME
PoseThe aforementned Ryan Murphy would probably be the first to adm he's been aid by his privilege as a whe gay cis male who has been workg the dtry sce the 1990s. "The Ltle Mermaid has s fair share of certified LGBTQ+ ins, om Ursula, who was spired by drag superstar Dive, to Sebastian, the young mermaid's "gay bt iend. "I tly believe that for myself and many others, Ra Repulsa was our first gay in before we really knew what that was, " YouTuber Rantasmo says.
What Osr Wil is also known for is for twice beg prosecuted for homosexualy and gross cency 1895. Wil, along wh more than 50, 000 other gay men, was posthumoly pardoned as part of the 2017 Alan Turg Law. Anrson Cooper is one of the most regnizable gay male ins the world right now.